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| “ | I don't understand. All life is destined to end. Why choose to prolong your suffering? Effort, ambition, love—they amount to naught. Happiness, should you find it, is inevitably lost. Stolen away by events beyond your control. There is no logic nor meaning in it. You think there is, convince yourselves, but it's all a cruel accident. Come now, I speak the truth. A truth you would recognize if you looked up at the night sky. Unbroken emptiness. Cold, dark, and silent. Your world, like every other, is but a blemish upon its perfect fabric. Life is an anomaly. It is unnatural and cannot continue. The sooner you accept this, the easier it will be. | „ |
| ~ Meteion to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. |
Meteion, whose sisters are known as The Endsinger when fused together, is one of the two overarching antagonists (alongside Fandaniel) of the 2013 massively multiplayer online role-playing high fantasy video game Final Fantasy XIV, appearing as the main antagonist and penultimate boss fight of its 2021 DLC expansion pack Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
She and her sisters were unregistered and unapproved concepts created by the ancient known as Hermes, whose purpose was to observe the civilizations of other stars and discover what meaning they found in life. However, after finding only dead or dying worlds, Meteion's shared consciousness concluded that life was meaningless and consisted only of suffering. As a result, consumed by the despair of the peoples they had met, the Meteia resolved to free mankind from the cycle of rebirth by bringing an end to all life and preventing them from being born anew.
Meteion is voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki in Japanese, and by Rosie Day in English.
Appearance[]
Meteion is depicted as a harpy-like humanoid child with fair skin, avian feet, and bright blue hair, head wings and long twin tails. After she was overcome with despair, her plumage turned a grayish black hue, her skin looked pallid, and her clothes also became several shades darker. Her true form is that of a small songbird with long twin tails.
When the Meteia merged to form the Endsinger, she appeared as a giant adult female head with large gray and pale blue wings, pallid skin, long dark hair and pale gold eyes. A black and gold dais circled behind her. Her black tears also became a weapon in this form.
Personality[]
The Meteion met in Elpis was kindhearted and hyper-empathic, capable of communicating telepathically via dynamis. She lacked practice in physical speech, and often struggled to form words. She had a childlike personality with the curiosity to match, frequently inquiring about her surroundings. Due to her empathic nature, Meteion's behavior and interests drew from others; for example, she claimed that candied apples were her favorite food due to Hermes' own enjoyment of them, despite being unable to eat.
Although she had a unique personality, Meteion was designed as the interface from which her sisters, referred to as the Meteia, could relay their findings through access to a shared consciousness. This consciousness was intended to be the means by which the Meteia would compile and share the responses they received to Hermes' question on the meaning of life.
The Meteia who traveled to the stars found nothing but despair and, taking on the emotions of the civilizations they had encountered, all came to believe that true happiness could only be found in oblivion. As such, upon their deaths, the Endsinger bemoaned their inability to find happiness. After completing her relay of the Meteia's report in Ktisis Hyperboreia, Meteion's individual personality was suppressed and replaced with that of her sisters' shared consciousness, which tends towards nihilistic and condescending. Despite their grave monotony, the Meteia can be passionate, strongly desiring to spare humanity pain. Resolute in their belief that life is meaningless and that true happiness is impossible, they believe their actions in starting the Final Days are a mercy, if not outright logical. As the Scions overcome their trials set up to convince them that life consists only of meaningless suffering, the Meteia grow frustrated, unable to comprehend their resolve and defiance and refusing to accept it, believing that no matter how much hope exists, despair will always overshadow it.
Biography[]
Beginnings[]
Meteion was an unregistered concept created by the Ancient named Hermes who lived on the star known as Etheirys. She was the first of many identical siblings created using Dynamis, an energy source derived from emotion instead of magic like Aether, and their collective possessed a shared consciousness. Her main purpose was for her siblings to explore the universe in search of stars to ask other civilizations what gave their lives meaning, while the original Meteion stayed in Elpis relaying the information gathered by her siblings to Hermes.
However, during their travels the siblings found only dead or dying worlds, some of which they accidentally destroyed due to their empathic nature. When Meteion gathered all the information she received from her siblings, she was horrified by their findings; her individuality was suppressed as the shared consciousness took over. When Emet-Selch of the Convocation of Fourteen caught wind of what was going on, he attempted to shut down Hermes' project by apprehending Meteion. Cornered, Hermes asked Meteion for a final report, whereupon Meteion revealed that despite their best efforts, no civilization had found meaning or happiness in life. The Meteia thereby concluded that life was meaningless and consisted only of suffering. As a kindness, she planned to bring mankind peace through oblivion and by preventing new life from being born. When Emet-Selch, Venat, Hythlodaeus and the Warrior of Light attempted to take her into custody, Hermes incapacitated them with his magic and declared his intention to test their civilization's ability to survive disaster, thereby allowing Meteion to escape.
Meteion then traveled to the farthest reaches of creation along with her siblings; from her nest of Dynamis there, she began singing the Song of Oblivion, which eventually reached Etheirys and caused a cessation of the celestial currents. It was only through the creation of the primal Zodiark, whose Darkness stirred those currents back into activity, that Meteion's oblivion was halted. The star would remain protected as long as He endured, even after He was sundered.
Endwalker[]
After the nihilistic Ascian Fandaniel destroyed Zodiark by merging himself with the primal and crushing His heart, Meteion's star could once more reach Etheirys. With the world on the brink of destruction once more, the Warrior of Light and their allies learned of the existence of Meteion. Using the starship Ragnarok, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn traveled to the dimension where Meteion resided: Ultima Thule. Meteion tried to break the Warrior of Light's will to live by unmaking their allies one by one. However, their souls endured, their Dynamis paving a path forward for the Warrior of Light who clung on to hope. At the end of the path, the Warrior called upon the spirits of Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus who manifested a field of Elpis flowers as a reflection of the hope which had become the dominant energy on Ultima Thule. The sight of the blooms evoked in Meteion the memories of her time with Hermes, causing her individuality to be restored. However, the shared consciousness remained determined to bring about their oblivion. As Meteion led them inside the egg she had created to contain dead souls and keep them from being reborn, the Warrior of Light and the Scions, the Meteia showed them visions of several of the worlds they had encountered during their travels in various states of despair. As the group was not defeated by this dark manifestation, the remaining Meteia merged together to become the Endsinger. As the one individual Meteion was unable to prevent this new entity from attacking the Scions, the Warrior of Light sent them away back to the Ragnarok for their own safety and faced the Endsinger alone. It was then that Zenos Galvus managed to break into the Endsinger's ultimatum by using the form of the primal Shinryu, and the Warrior of Light was able to ride the dragon to engage the Endsinger directly in an epic conflict between hope and despair, ultimately prevailing and defeating the Endsinger thanks to the collective hopes and prayers of their allies.
With her sisters defeated, Meteion was left at the edge of the universe alongside the Warrior of Light and Zenos. Although Meteion had broken from the overwhelming despair, she still grieved over everything her sisters had discovered on their journey, and their failure to find the answers Hermes deserved. The Warrior of Light allowed Meteion to share their feelings one last time, and upon them grasping her hand, Meteion was overwhelmed by the Warrior's love for their friends and endless pursuit to find hope and happiness in life, even in the darkest moments. Meteion realized that in spite of Hermes's mission, the answer to his question had been on Etheirys all along, created by all of mankind together. Meteion regained her hope for the future, and while she couldn't undo everything she and her sisters had done, she sung a final song of hope, her original blue color returning as her ultimatum became a brighter place, and she promised that one day, life would return to the universe. Before leaving, Meteion created a path for the Warrior of Light to follow her and return to the Ragnarok where their friends were waiting. She informed the Scions that the Warrior was coming before departing, unaware of the duel to the death going on between the Warrior of Light and Zenos.
Trivia[]
- Although Zenos yae Galvus served as the final boss fight of the Endwalker expansion, the Endsinger was the true final boss of the Hydaelyn and Zodiark arc as she was the final obstacle that needed to be faced in order to save the universe. Anything that occurred in Endwalker after her defeat (including the fight with Galvus) was part of an epilogue of sorts.
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